This email responds to an action item assigned to the Secretary at the 22 January 2020 TC meeting.
The OpenC2 TC stood up June 2017, and established three subcommittees (SCs):
OpenC2 Actuator Profile (AP)
Subcommittee - Defining actuator profiles, the OpenC2 message elements applicable to specific cyber defense functions . OpenC2 Implementation Considerations (IC)
Subcommittee - Providing guidance for implementation aspects such as message transport and information assurance . OpenC2 Language Subcommittee - Developing, maintaining, and resolving comments to the OpenC2 language documentation .
SC portion of the TC home page: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=openc2#subcommittees
Links to the individual SC descriptions are there.
A t the January 2020 TC meeting, TC co-chair Joe Brule proposed the consolidation of the Language and IC SCs, based on the projection that following the summer 2019 publication of the three initial OpenC2 specifications, the workload of those two committees would be reduced, while the workload of the AP SC would likely grow. He further proposed that the March co-chairs election be aligned with this proposed structure.
In the discussion, the following points were raised:
A decision on this should be delayed until after the Plug Fest / Hackathon, so that lessons learned and work items identified from that event are known and can be considered in the discussion and decision.
The decision should precede the elections. A decision to restructure can be made at the February TC meeting, as the TC routinely achieves quorum, so that TC members know ahead of time what positions are being filled in March.
Given the OASIS management approach of preserving all artifacts of a TC's operations, the mechanics of this change are likely to be suspending the operation of one of the existing SCs, and folding its mandates into the remaining SC (or suspending both and establishing a new, consolidated SC).
T C members are invited to contribute to this discussion on-line in preparation for the 19 February TC meeting.
This message will be copied to the Slack general channel. Contributions to the discussion are welcome on either email or Slack.
Dave
David Lemire,
CISSP
Systems Engineer
HII Mission Driven Innovative Solutions (HII-MDIS)
formerly G2, Inc.
Technical Solutions Division
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